Guest Commentary: Politicized IRS Could Tip Election Scales

Imagine, if you will, the 2014 election. A charismatic conservative woman — the new Sarah Palin — is running for the Senate seat of a Democrat lion long in fang. The Republican is a darling of the Tea Party base, which also tends to be pro-life. She’s leagues ahead of the Democrat incumbent: her rallies are electric, her speeches inspiring. But scant weeks before the election, screaming headlines announce the unthinkable: the popular conservative had an abortion as a 20-something! Her disillusioned pro-life base stays home and she loses big.

Somehow her health records were leaked to the press. By whom? In a few short months, the IRS will be in charge of enforcing 50 new provisions of Obamacare. That’s the same IRS now revealed as a wholly owned subsidiary of Obama’s governing principle, “the Chicago way.” As enforcers, the IRS will have full electronic access to the medical records of every single American.

Mull that over a minute. Think about the huge damage the IRS has already done to Obama’s conservative opponents with outrageously lawless tactics — delaying nonprofit status for years, intimidation with threats of perjury prosecution, illegally demanding donor lists, and leaking those lists to liberal media are just a few. These strategies doubtless muzzled the Tea Party groups’ power and outreach. Many of these groups focus on get-out the-vote campaigns, and the Obama camp’s successful stifling of those efforts may well have influenced the five million Republicans who stayed home in 2012. By robbing the opposition of its megaphone, the IRS doubtless helped win the election for Mr. Obama.

Actually, the IRS medical records seizure is already underway. Recently news broke that the IRS illegally stole 60 million confidential client medical records of a California health care provider. Though this happened way back in March of 2011, it came to light now because the healthcare company is suing the IRS. Good luck with that. The Republicans (note only the Republicans) on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are looking into it and have sent the usual strongly-worded letter to the new IRS Commissioner. Good luck with that too. IRS agents had a search warrant to look into the financial, not the medical, records of one former company employee. But they creatively expanded their probe into the medical records of 10 million Americans; information on gynecological and psychological counseling, sexual and drug treatment, and more.

According to the lawsuit, the records belonged to “celebrities, sports personalities and CEOS,” and even “the intimate medical records of every state judge in California…leading members of the Screen Actors Guild and the Directors Guild, and prominent citizens in the world of entertainment, business and government.”

What a juicy trove. This sensitive information could be used to induce an important conservative film maker (yes, there are a few) to endorse Democrat candidates under threat of releasing confidential drug treatment records, or to blackmail judges who may have medical embarrassments such as STD or HIV to hide. Or, some independent Hollywood honcho could be motivated to contribute millions to Democrat war chests to avoid disclosure of treatment for a serious mental condition.

This all sounds like a best-selling political thriller plot until we harken back to Barack Obama’s favorite m.o. for winning elections: creative leakage. Mr. Obama earned his political chops on the way to the Oval Office by leaking unsavory details of opponents’ personal lives that turned elections his way.

Shortly before the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, Obama was losing in the polls against rival Blair Hull. Until a Chicago Tribune story leaked that Hull’s wife had sought a protective order during their 1998 divorce. The resulting furor led Hull to reluctantly release the sealed records. Not coincidentally, Obama campaign guru David Axelrod had important contacts at the Tribune where he was a political writer for eight years. Hull went down to defeat and Obama became the nominee.

Sleazy divorce-related leaks continued to be Obama’s campaign theme in the general election. His Republican opponent, Jack Ryan, had everything going for him: smarts, good looks, wealth, and a generous heart shown by quitting his lucrative career to teach at an inner city school. But at the request of — yes, the Chicago Tribune — a judge unsealed the custody records in Ryan’s divorce. Obama’s capos pored through the 400 pages of custody papers and found allegations of an affair and visits to “sex clubs.” Days after the judge unsealed the records, Ryan dropped out of the race and last-minute replacement Alan Keyes stepped up. Obama won.

If you still think he won’t use IRS-generated leaks to win the House in 2014, recall what he told supporters about Republicans in the heat of the 2008 presidential race: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” Gun control stops at the White House.

Joy Overbeck is a Colorado journalist and author who’s written for The Washington Times, The Daily Caller, American Thinker, My Colorado View, Breakpoint, and elsewhere. Read her quirky God blog at www.godsayshi.org and tweet her @JoyOverbeck1

Obama has never won an office in a fair fight. He played the race card against Hillary and Bill when they were beginning to pull ahead. He lied his way to his first term and smeared his way back to the top for a second term. This is what happens when a free press issues a free pass.

I do not understand why people are not questioning the mental compentancy of this president. There has to be professionals out there that have analyzed this man in their private moments. They know better than the ordinary person what constitutes mental health issues. Obama’s health records were sealed so nobody was privy to any information. Nobody should be allowed to apply for the office of the presidency without making all available information public. If they have something hiding in their past that they do not want to be reveled they should stay out of public office. We The People are the employers of this person. Don’t we have the right to see who is applying for the job and expecting the media to do their job by vetting and investigating said individual to the fullest.? I happened across an article dated Oct.21, 2010 from Conservative Daily News.com that gives insider information even back that far as people questioning the capabilites of this guy’s mental stability. Amendment 25 Article 4 talks of removal of a president who is not fit to complete his job as president. We are held hostage to giving our personal information to sign up for Obamacare including medical infor. yet our president is not being honest with the American People by refusing to release his own medical history and I suspect there are many who know the truth and cover for his incompentecy but for reasons not understood refuse to come forth with the facts. At some point shouldn’t somebody stand up for Right.?